In a series of posts, Greg Wyman considers the problems of trying to create a free market for education. In this post, he focuses on the use of marketing. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/greg-wyman-public-education-and-the-illusion-of-the-free-market/ #Privatization

At the Root of Charter School Scandals: Lobbying for Money and Power - If a school cannot survive without turning its teachers and its students into a lobbying force, then it does not deserve to survive. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/11/25/at-the-root-of-charter-school-scandals/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization

“It may not be their intention as of right now to privatize #water, but the way that this act is written creates this slippery slope towards #privatization, making water a for-profit service due to the fact that the public corporation in this legislation states that it must be incorporated under this Business Corporations Act,” https://pressprogress.ca/ontario-claims-province-isnt-privatizing-water/

#onpoli #waterisLife #humanRights #CorporateGreed #DougFord #Corruption

“If you aren’t from the US, stay out of our politics”

#imperialism #tariffs #sanctions #racism #immigration #warmonger #usa #europe #africa #sudangenocide #venezuela #gazagenocide #mexico #colombia #southkorea #china #russia #haiti #drc #congo #cuba #politics #geopolitics #international #censorship #lawfare #freespeech #healthcare #us #unitedstates #canada #cdnpoli #tech #surveillance #privatization #education #genocide @democracy #antifa #trump #maga #nokings #climateCrisis #climate #cop30

2/ "He was a believer in the Washington #Consensus, US #military #hegemony bolstered in the Middle East by the alliance with #Israel, #globalization, the #privatization of government functions, STEM-dominated education, and male-centered sexual hedonism—an ethos he took to sickening extremes."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeffrey-epstein-israel-foreign-policy-elite/

"Powerful people felt comfortable around Epstein because he was one of them. He had the same neoliberal worldview that has dominated the #US #elite since the end of the Cold War. He was a believer in the Washington #Consensus, US #military #hegemony bolstered in the Middle East by the alliance with #Israel, #globalization, the #privatization of government functions, STEM-dominated education, and male-centered sexual hedonism—an ethos he took to sickening extremes."

Tennessee: Parents' Lawsuit Challenges Vouchers - They charge that vouchers are undermining the states constitutional requirement to provide free public schools for all students. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/11/24/tennessee-lawsuit-challenges-vouchers/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization

If were a #conservative voter in #Alberta, I'd be concerned #DanielleSmith thinks you have zero short-term memory. @lisab0923.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy discusses the new plan the #UCP has for #privatization of our healthcare system. 🇨🇦 #Cdnhealthcare #Doctors youtu.be/v_8qLV7PgTE?...

What you think they said isn’t...

Vijay Prashad: Let the Sudanese Walk To Peace
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/21/vijay-prashad-let-the-sudanese-walk-to-peace/
Backed by foreign powers, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are locked in a bloody war with devastating consequences for the Sudanese people. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In early November, United Nations Secretary-General António…
#Politics #AntiColonialism #CrimesAgainstHumanity #HumanRights #International #Opinion #Sudan #AbrahamAccords #AfricanUnion #ClimateChange #Desertification #Droughts #GeneralAbdelFattahAlBurhan #Gold #InternationalPeoplesAssembly #LieutenantGeneralMohamed“hemedti”HamdanDagalo #MassDisplacement #MassStarvation #PanAfricanism #PresidentOmarAlBashir #Privatization #RapidSupportForces(rsf) #SaudiMaternityHospital #SudaneseArmedForces #Tricontinental:InstituteForSocialResearch #VijayPrashad

Thomas Ultican looks at the state of the charter school industry in California in the coming year. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/thomas-ultican-california-charter-schools-heading-for-2026/ #Privatization

School Vouchers - A primer on vouchers. https://reflectionsinedblogblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/school-vouchers-2/ #Privatization

"The UCP just confirmed that they are going full-steam ahead with US style healthcare.

They’re going to let doctors operate in both the public health care system and now a private healthcare system where they can charge their patients.

Get ready to open your wallets for healthcare, Alberta! Just like the Premier had always hoped for."

- Rakhi Panchouli, MLA

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FWyMLh1vn/

I do remember when Danielle Smith said that the US Healthcare system "is the model for Alberta".

#abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #privatization

Wer möchte morgens vor einer Bahnfahrt eine Email von der #deutschebahn bekommen, in der man gefragt wird

"Bereit für eine #Challenge?"

NIEMAND! Jede Bahnfahrt mit der #DB birgt die Chance eine #Herausforderung für Körper, #Psyche & #Terminplanung zu werden

Danke für die #Privatisierung die aus der #Bahn eine Katastrophe auf Schienen machte

[EN]
Whoever does not know German #rail is considered lucky

#Privatization turned a #public #transport company into a catastrophe
#bahn #bahnbubble #DB

'Dr. Ken Cheung struggles for a few seconds to describe how he views himself within Alberta’s rapidly privatizing health-care system.

“I feel like I’m a conscientious objector,” said Cheung, an anesthesiologist for 25 years at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre.

As a supporter of public health care, Cheung said he objects to a policy that requires him to work in one of Alberta’s private, for-profit chartered surgical facilities, or CSFs.

Those CSFs are now churning out tens of thousands of surgeries, mostly in Calgary and Edmonton, every year under a United Conservative Party government.

Cheung, who is nearing full retirement, and another Calgary anesthesiologist, with decades of work ahead of her, have so far avoided being forced to work in CSFs by trading shifts with colleagues.

Both said they resent being directed to help establish the for-profit surgery industry in Alberta when there are clear signs it is undermining the timely care of patients in the public system.

“I am not working in those facilities because I find it morally inappropriate to do so, and I don’t want to be part of that,” the second anesthesiologist said.

On Friday, the UCP government doubled down on its CSF strategy, announcing it would be funding an additional 50,000 procedures over the next three years in chartered surgical facilities “to reduce surgical wait times.”

But a Tyee investigation found:

Anesthesiologists in Calgary are being scheduled by senior Alberta health managers, in response to government directives, to work in CSFs, sometimes against their will.
Anesthesiologists, and in some cases surgeons, have been preferentially assigned to work in chartered surgical facilities over public hospitals, including in response to political influence exerted by CSF owners.
The government has ignored repeated warnings, based on data, that the rapid expansion of surgeries in CSFs has been increasing wait times in public hospitals for critical surgeries including lung, prostate and colorectal cancer, and children’s organ transplants.
The government refused to pause the expansion of private surgeries despite being shown evidence they were neither saving money nor significantly reducing wait times. Instead, the government continues to take money out of the public system to fund the expansion of private surgeries.
“There is an anesthesiology shortage,” said one former senior health executive who had urged the prioritization of critical surgeries.

“But they [the UCP government] did not want to slow down the volume of surgeries in CSFs, and the problem just got worse.”

“Alberta Health didn’t seem to care who gets surgery,” said Dr. Braden Manns, a former vice-president of Alberta Health Services, or AHS. “They care about how many surgeries get done in a year.”'

The surgical initiative is a policy to expand the use of private surgical facilities for cataract, podiatry and particularly orthopedic surgeries such as knee and hip replacements in an attempt to reduce chronically long wait times.

Most spoke on condition of anonymity because they variously said they were bound by non-disclosure agreements or feared it would affect their current or future employment.

All referenced a climate of fear within the health-care system, engendered by a string of high-profile dismissals, including the entire AHS board of governors — twice — and former CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos, whose wrongful-dismissal lawsuit has spurred a criminal and several other investigations.

Three former executives independently described a culture in which some senior government politicians and their staff displayed open mistrust of data and advice. They also describe an ideologically based “hatred” for AHS, the giant organization that for more than a decade managed the province’s public health-care system.

The government is in the process of dismantling AHS and replacing it with multiple agencies, which health policy experts and staff have said is unnecessary and is causing chaos.

“We would bring the data to the ministers and deputy ministers and senior staff but they didn’t trust AHS, they didn’t trust us, and they didn’t want to listen,” said one former senior AHS executive.

“So part of it is ideology, part of it is that no matter what you said to them, they didn’t believe it. They didn’t care.”'

Meanwhile, wait times for nearly all critical cancer and other surgeries are far outside acceptable wait-time standards.

Legislative changes have enabled aggressive expansion of contracting and volumes, but the review said “questions remain about the ability of such an approach to maintain quality, sustainability, and equitable access, especially in areas requiring complex care co-ordination.”

The initial plan for rolling out the Alberta Surgical Initiative was multi-pronged but largely focused on an expansion of both public system capacity through infrastructure investments and the contracting out of surgeries to private, for-profit providers, some with their own purpose-built facilities.

But the expansion of the public system was quickly abandoned and the government set a volume target of 30 per cent of all surgeries within private facilities.

“There was no evidence to support that,” one former executive said, adding that there was no planning for whether the private system could accommodate that volume or what the domino effect might be on the public system in terms of staffing and other resources.

“They just said they want to have a third of the volume being done in private facilities.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/17/Alberta-For-Profit-Surgery-Push-Failing/

#abpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #privatization

AZ: Money-Sucking Vouchers - This spending was forced by the Republican party over multiple votes against vouchers Arizona citizens. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/az-money-sucking-vouchers?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web #Privatization

Stephen Dyer: How the Ohio Legislature Cheats the Majority of Students - The numbers used to make the districts-swimming-in-money claim include money for charter schools and vouchers. https://dianeravitch.net/2025/11/17/stephen-dyer-how-the-ohio-legislature-cheats-the-majority-of-students-who-are-enrolled-in-public-scools/ via @dianeravitch #Privatization

Sen Warren is attempting🚨to stop the reported selloff of the $1.6T student loan portfolio to private cos -- demanding Ed Sec McMahon & TSY Sec Bessent quit their reported talks of a potential sale.

"This sale would be🚨a giveaway to wealthy insiders at the expense of working-class borrowers & taxpayers -threatens the loss of borrowers' legally guaranteed protections, &-would likely be illegal if the debt is sold at a loss for taxpayers."

#Privatization #Corruption #USPol
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/warren-urges-trump-administration-immediately-cease-student-loan/story?id=127575836

Sun Sentinel: Florida hypocrites attack Islamic schools - The editorial board of the South Florida Sun Sentinel points out that there’s considerable hypocrisy when it comes to religious liberty and public tax dollars for private schools. https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/sun-sentinel-florida-hypocrites-attack-islamic-schools/ #Privatization

What Really Really Limits School Choice - One answer is schools that don't want disabled, gay or non-Christians. https://open.substack.com/pub/curmudgucation/p/what-really-really-limits-school?r=hcxf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false #Privatization

Billionaires want unregulated charter schools in California and don’t care that privatization is harming public education. https://tultican.com/2025/11/11/california-charter-schools-heading-for-2026/ #Privatization